Shiing-Shen Chern

Awards

1. 1983/1984

   Wolf Prize — Mathematics

   Math

   for outstanding contributions to global differential geometry, which have profoundly influenced all mathematics.

2. 2004

   Shaw Prize — Mathematical Sciences

   Math

   For his initiation of the field of global differential geometry and his continued leadership of the field, resulting in beautiful developments that are at the centre of contemporary mathematics, with deep connections to topology, algebra and analysis, in short, to all major branches of mathematics of the last sixty years.